Chapter 2 Sleepless Nights
Due to the existence of extraordinary strength, the Menes Empire is much stronger than the feudal empire of the same level as Blue Star in terms of combat effectiveness. But against the enemy who can fight across the planet, it is really not enough, and it can only be crushed. This kind of gap in civilization is bigger than the big green fruit encountering the sunset, and of course, there is no hope of winning. In just three months, most of the vast territory has fallen, except for the torture of the royal daughter Elu Romei, who can barely maneuver, the whole empire is full of mourning, and the will to resist is getting lower and lower.
In the end, taking advantage of the Sun King's suicide and Eru Rome fighting on the front line again, the "surrender faction" and the "royalists" put Heladia on the throne. The new king ascended the throne, even if the throne came in a hurry, it was a very grand event, and Evan naturally couldn't continue to be the temple dead house, so he came to watch the ceremony with the priests.
Before the coronation ceremony was completed, the torture and murder of the princess returned from the battlefield, controlled the situation devastatingly, and executed a group of the most joyful opponents.
As a bystander, Evan watched as the beautiful Sun King was knocked off his crown and died tragically like a dog, and his body soaked in the cistern and gradually swollen.
He was sad and sad in his heart, and he was suddenly designated as the next Sun King, and he was suddenly frightened. The current Menes Empire, no matter how you look at it, is a pill weather, as soon as he comes to power, won't he want to be the king of the dead country?
The king of the dead country is just that, it seems that he wants to surrender and sign a traitorous treaty, which is something that will be poked in the backbone and scolded until hundreds of years after death...... In any case, this Sun King must not be a pawn!
"I don't think I'm a good fit!"
Ivan mustered up the courage to refuse, his voice sonorous and powerful, and his tone was as hard as iron.
The ministers looked sideways, and hundreds of pairs of eyes brushed towards Evan, and as his voice fluctuated in the hall, it gradually calmed down, but the air froze as if it were frozen.
“……”
Elu Luomei looked at this side prince who had never met before, her eyebrows raised, and the silver-gray rainbow ring in the depths of her eyes contracted, and the sight at that moment seemed to be the cold light of the deflection of the blade.
“……”
Evan was swept away by this look, and suddenly a chill suddenly felt in his chest, as if someone had opened a gap, and the cold air drilled into his heart. Before you know it, most of the psychological defenses built by courage suddenly collapsed.
"What's your name?"
The princess narrowed her eyes, held her hip with one hand, looked at him carefully, and suddenly took a step.
At this time, Elurome was twenty-five years old, and Evan was only thirteen, and she was extremely tall, half a body taller than the prince. Facing towards Evan, the backlit shadow soon overwhelmed his body, filled with a condescending sense of oppression. At this time, the expressions and gestures of the two of them, in the eyes of the ministers, were like predators gradually approaching and herbivores.
"Evan."
Evan raised his head and looked at her, but his vision was obscured by two towering mountains, and he was suddenly extremely embarrassed, neither looking up nor bowing.
"You don't want to be my husband?"
She raised her beautiful eyebrows, her thin white fingers hooked a bundle of long sideburns, slowly lifted it, and then let the smooth strands of hair hang down to the ground again—obviously a very sultry gesture, made by those in power, but filled with a sense of oppression of power.
"Don't dare, no, no, I mean...... There are many princes who are closer to me than me, and I am not very suitable. He trembled and argued.
"But they're too old, and they've already had families of their own!" The female officer hurriedly added.
"They are scattered all over the country and cannot be recalled in a short time." A certain dignitary chimed in.
"I say you're suitable, you're suitable."
She walked slowly, with an inexplicable smile on the corner of her mouth, and her tone was soft and gentle, but there was an inexplicable chill oozing. Ivan retreated in a panic, as if the other party was a dangerous female dragon and he was just a helpless little animal.
Elu Romei forced him all the way to the corner, his expression suddenly changed, his face gradually became cold, his crystal-clear eyes were full of murderous intent, and his pupils shot out like a gun:
"It's up to you to live and become the Sun King, or to die and be one of the corpses."
You've said it all, so is there still a choice!?
Evan glanced at the saber in the hand of the murderous princess, and his throat suddenly trembled unnaturally, it was the sword that had just killed dozens of people cleanly, including her uncle.
At this moment, a series of puppet emperors and fallen monarchs flashed in Ivan 's mind, from Emperor Liu Xie to the Tatar chief Puyi. If you think about it carefully, even if you are the king of the dead country, you don't necessarily die.
“……”
Seeing that he was silent, the rainbow ring in her pupils suddenly spread around, and at the same time raised the tip of her sword slightly.
"I do! I'll do it! ”
Evan saw the blade of the sword in her hand move, and after weighing the pros and cons, he resolutely coaxed.
"Good!"
She skillfully unsheathed her sword, tilted her head, and smiled. The sun shone behind her through the window, her long silver-gray hair was blown by the wind, and the skin around her cheeks was illuminated.
……
"Keep it simple, and proceed with the ritual as soon as possible."
Under the orders of Eru Lomei, the panicked court was put back into operation, the priests offered hooks and wats, the attendants took out the gas scepter representing the monarchy from the treasury, and the nobles and bureaucrats gathered in the Hall of Mirrors to pay their respects to the next Sun King.
Throughout the coronation ceremony, Ivan behaved like a marionette, dressed in a wing-patterned robe, and allowed the priest to present himself with the scorpion king's power symbol, wearing a disc-shaped sun necklace symbolizing eternity, holding the Black Eagle Scepter in his left hand and a golden hook wat in his right hand.
Elorome also changed into a dress similar to his, but in her left hand she held the White Eagle Scepter, and occasionally intervened to arrange his clothes for him - her expression was focused on tending to an object, and the controlling look made Ivan tremble.
At the end of the Hall of Mirrors, under the huge obelisk of the Sun Wheel, the newly crowned Sun King of the Menes Empire raised his head, glanced at the huge celestial body above, and tried not to pay attention to the 'wife' who was watching from the side, and raised the golden hook wat in his hand.
At the same time, the great priests, who appeared in the ceremony, began to read the prayer in an ancient and obscure language:
"Crown on your head, may light and fire be upon your head, and put it on your head to eternity. Obelisk, before your gods, may your reign be firm and your kingdom long. The scepter of the Sun King makes your land wide, and may your body be dissolved in light and fire, so that the truth may dwell in your mouth, and give this land goodness, justice, and peace. ”
As the last verse of the prayer faded away, a gentle breeze came, the sun slowly filled the royal court, and the towering reliefs and pillars were gilded with gold, and the air gradually became hot.
At this moment, Evan found that he had been surrounded by clusters of light, the Scorpion King Power Marker on his head, the Black Shadow Scepter in his hand, and the Sun Wheel Ornament Chain around his neck, all emitting extremely dazzling light at the same time, and the light converged into a divergent pillar of light, making him unable to open his eyes.
"I will obey the command of your honor and offer my allegiance to the great Sun King, who is light, warm, and growing, and rules the world with the scepter of the sun."
In the year 1453 of the solar calendar, on the 112th day of the rainy season, in the mirror corridor of the palace of the king, the sun king Elu Luomei and the sun king Evan, were crowned kings in the prayers of the ministers.
……
Ekhtadon, the palace of the kings.
Evan sat by the floor-to-ceiling window, watching the fiery sunset on the horizon, slowly crossing the huge celestial body that obscured the sky and falling into the horizon, thinking alone. A drizzle of rain poured down from the darkening night sky and splashed on the crystal walls, leaving the world outside the window empty, and the huge celestial bodies seemed closer to the earth.
If he had rewind the clock three months ago, he would never have dreamed that he would ascend the throne and become the king of this vast empire. Even if he knew that he was a puppet king who couldn't be a puppet king for long, all this in front of him still gave Evan an an illusion that he was at the pinnacle of life.
"How many more days can I, the puppet king, leave a reputation in history?"
Ivan began to think crankily to himself, and then suddenly realized that he was now the Sun King, even if he was a puppet king, it would be no problem to be lucky enough to have a few maids.
Thinking of this, his blood suddenly surged, and the haze accumulated in his heart disappeared for the time being—proving that when a man's lustful heart erupted, even the shadow of death would retreat.
"Ahem, ahem, you ...... You guys...... Take off your clothes and show me. ”
Evan stood up with his fists in his hands, and the maid who looked at it with his blood open, since he was dead horizontally and vertically, he also wanted to die under the peony flower.
"Today is Your Majesty's wedding night, we can't do this!"
The two pretty maids looked at each other, then shook their heads in unison.
"Damn!"
His face was faintly green, and even the maid dared to ignore his orders, what he did as the Sun King was too aggrieved.
"Forget it!"
With a wave of his hand, Evan sat back upright, his gaze reverted to the huge celestial body above the clouds, and began to speculate on the intentions of the extraterrestrial human civilization.
It can be concluded that the other party may not have come to destroy the world, otherwise Menes would definitely not have lasted that long. A scientific and technological civilization capable of transplanetary warfare must have weapons of mass destruction far beyond nuclear weapons, and if you want to engage in genocide, long-range orbital bombing is enough.
Since it wasn't for destruction, Menes certainly had what it needed, maybe some kind of scarce resource, maybe the occult knowledge of the Empire, or maybe it was simply for the expansion of the colonies.
Ivan had a vague feeling that in the past three months, the upper echelons of the empire might have communicated with the invaders.
If this is the case, what the other party wants, someone on his side may already know. But since the entire upper echelons are silent about this, there must be some extremely demanding demands.
Just when we, the Sun King, were first distressed by state affairs, there was a sudden echo of clear and lonely footsteps outside the door. The voice was very soft and smart, as light as a fawn, but as firm as a war horse.
In the dormitory, everyone, including Ivan subconsciously held their breath, and this invisible majesty made everyone unconsciously cautious.
Bang Dang——!
The carved black iron door slid open to both sides, and the moment the indoor and outdoor lights met, the flowing air lifted the skirt, making the pure white and beautiful figure float slightly, giving people an unreal sense of dream.
“……”
Eru Romei stood by the door and remained silent, her head slightly lowered, her silver-gray eyes like a pool of stagnant water, and the moment she looked up at Evan, her thick eyelashes turned up, and then she walked towards him.
“……”
Ivan turned around when he heard the voice, and just as he didn't know what to say, he found that while she was walking towards him, he also put his hand on the soap belt around his waist, and unbuttoned it, and the flower-shaped skirt gently fell off.
Then Eru Lome took off her tiara one by one, discarded it with her hand, and finally the armband and loincloth, stripped of her elaborate gown, and all that was left of her was her white dress, boots—and the saber that she had always held in her hand.
In the eyes of our stunned Sun King, she is like a peacock with a gorgeous feathers, and her graceful and luxurious temperament gradually converges, but the unique heroic spirit is here to disappear.
“……”
Ivan widened his eyes and tried to divert his attention, but he still couldn't control it, and unconsciously looked at the long swaying legs.
Qiang ——!
Elurome looked at him, and suddenly pulled out his sword, the blade of the sword cut through the air, and the air flow was cut into thin slices in an instant, and the cold light of the secondary refraction instantly disappeared the candlelight, and the tip of the sword directly hit the tip of Ivan's nose.
Is this going to sleep me, or is it going to kill me!?
Ivan suddenly cleared his mind, and his eyes were staring directly at the tip of the sword, full of question marks.
"Tomorrow you will go to meet the invaders as the Sun King, there will not be many escorts with you, and if something abnormal happens, you can only rely on yourself."
Wang Nu's silver pupils reflected his confused expression, pointed to the huge celestial body outside the window, and a light smile bloomed at the corner of her lips, like a beautiful poisonous snake spitting out a snake letter:
"For security reasons, tonight I will teach you some of the core mysteries of the Sun Sutra, and it is up to you how much you can master."
What! The day after I ascended the throne, I was going to surrender!?
Ivan suddenly surged in the depths of his heart, burning with rage, if it wasn't for the fact that the gap was too big, he wanted to draw his sword and fight her directly.
"Of course, you can choose not to learn, I won't force it." She stared at him with burning eyes, her beautiful face distorted by the candlelight, like a witch squeezed between light and darkness.
“……”
Evan took two deep breaths, raised his head, looked into the other party's eyes, and said calmly:
"I'll learn!"